Comments on: Will Xcode Be Coming To Windows Soon?

By: M3Z

M3Z — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:54:44 +0000

Strange. I just installed xcode with the ios sdk on my mac and it wanted near 10GB of space. Thats not to say i like Visual Studio, but…

By: Coyote

Coyote — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:55:21 +0000

Wrong again, Visual Studio is too much proprietary and based on proprietary technologies, and it nearly uses 1.5GB of disk if you install C++, C# and the Web IDE. That is too much for an IDE! And if you notice it, Visual Studio always crashes whenever you’ve been developing with it for two hours, isn’t it a little strange?

By: Coyote

Coyote — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:49:09 +0000

You are joking aren’t you? Eclipse is not an alternative for nothing… All it does is to eat 100MB of your memory every minute… Also as an java IDE, there is a lot better (even netbeans is better), because if you must say building an IDE that gets everything through plugins, is not a smart idea.

By: Giancarlo

Giancarlo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:38:44 +0000

check it out… search for iPC x86. Runs MAC OSX in your PC. Forget windows and microsoft. Run xCode. Happy coding. pass it along!

By: Lejf

Lejf — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:22:21 +0000

Well, Isn’t it c++? I would like to use c++ as I program in that language.

By: evildave

evildave — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:18:13 +0000

Even if Apple did produce Xcode for Windoze (right after pigs invented an airplane and hell’s outdoor hockey season got into full swing), Micro$uck would just ‘accidentally’ break it. Again and again. Routinely as a part of normal software development and testing. Maybe publicize ‘security holes’ in the underlying APIs that ONLY affect Xcode as well. As a ‘public service’. All things that they do for Apple’s other products, as well as anybody else who nominally ‘competes’ with America’s favorite monopoly abuser.

By: DaveMora

DaveMora — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:31:06 +0000

I do not think that Apple will ever allow you to write for xcode in a windows environment.

If I can run xcode on my windows box I would not have a reason to buy a Mac or even a Mac-Mini.

Apple is not a software company they are a hardware company. Software is just the bonus thing they give us. That is the reason their applications do not have any type of DRM.

But, xcode in a windows box would be nice. Because after all. I am a PC liviging in a Mac World.

#my2cents

By: blabla

blabla — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:14:43 +0000

xcode for windows? to do what?? applications for mac? are you dumb? and test them where? in a virtual machine?
First of all, xcode cannot compare with the flexibility and power of visual studio. someone above said microsuck visual studio and wanted eclipse. Eclipse and all java based environments are just as stupid as them not being response on a 3 GHZ machine.
Get real. Pfff, dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

By: Shahed

Shahed — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:31:35 +0000

What about GNUStep and its dev tools on Windows ?

I am trying to get into iPhone development, and see GNUStep as a
good way to get familiar with Cocoa etc.

Who says Cocoa cant run on windows ? GNUSteps implementation may be buggy on windows, but it can be used as a stepping stool before investing in a Mac (Yes I plan to purchase a Mini)

If XCode was released with support for GUNStep or whatever implementation of the OpenStep frameworks, it would be just GREAT !!!

(But then I wont invest in a Mac, so apple would lose out…)

By: ZeDD2006

ZeDD2006 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:14:41 +0000

I never got eclipse to work on my mac box. I remember reading a article about steve wanting more applications developed for mac, mainly games, because they rulled the gaming industry before he was kicked out. If xCode was ported to windows, what do you think would happen to the future of games? most companies use Microsucks visual studio to create games, very very few of them dont use it. But if they were given an development suite that runs both on linux, windows AND mac, bam…they just increased there revenue of games, linux users want games. Mac users want games. This is where xcode would be the best solution, either that or microsfot releases visual studio for mac, which i dont see that EVER happening, but i could be wrong. but one the of the 2 need to happen.

By: VictorTarsus

VictorTarsus — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:01:38 +0000

I can’t really see Apple releasing Xcode on the Crapdows OS. Besides as mentioned previously, what self respecting Windows Developer want with Xcode? Even if they wanted to get into the development of Software for the Mac, a Mini is by far cheaper than most commercial grade developer geared Windows boxes.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:45:01 +0000

I think the only way Xcode would come to Windows is to support the development of native iPhone apps.

I have a Windows PC and have an interest in writing apps for the iPhone. I’m not however going to plunk down $1,100 for a MacBook just to write iPhone apps. Apple will need to have a Windows-based IDE (whatever it is) to ensure the widest possible developer base for the iPhone.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:45:11 +0000

Don’t forget, Apple also made AirPort Setup Assistant for Windows too…

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Apple’s Trojan Horse: Webkit - The Apple Blog — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:30:21 +0000

[...] Chris is at it again, and recently wrote up his own take on a topic that I took a stab at a few months back. While my guess at Xcode dropping on the Windows platform was received with both [...]

By: Parvenu74

Parvenu74 — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:33:31 +0000

What would be more compelling to developers: XCode on Windows making applications for Windows and/or Mac OS X, or XCode on Leopard which creates Universal apps which can run on Mac OS, Windows, and possibly even Linux?

The territory to conquer is the business desktop, and right now I think an impediment to that is Microsoft’s entrenched position with Active Directory and other enterprise/directory management tools. Sure, it sounds nice to start swapping out Macs for aging WinXP boxes, but how will the new Mac boxes fit into the group policy schemes and play well with the prevailing directory management/security scheme?

Developers are certainly a boon for your platform, but you need to get the network admins on board too, and for that you’ll need to either make Leopard integrate with A/D like it was designed to be a native client, or you’ll need to create an entire enterprise management replacement with a stupid-easy, and error-resistant migration path for enterprises with tens of thousands, if not millions of users.

By: scott lewis

scott lewis — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:06:12 +0000

As one of the “dime a dozen” Mac developers, I have to say it’s unlikely Xcode for Windows would be released. It’s a good IDE, and I really like most of it, but it is intimately tied to Mac technologies, most notably Obj-C and the Cocoa frameworks. In the Windows world it would compete with quite a few very good IDE’s that already have a good following.

I think every Mac developer keeps hoping Apple will release a version of Xcode that would allow cross-platform compilation, so that the code we write for Macs would work under Windows as well. This also seems unlikely due to a large number of issues.

I think all us developers continue to hope Apple will unlock the iPhone to some degree in 2008. That’s our best chance to reach a wider market with our expertise.